Quotes About Success

'SNL' has changed my career because it gave it a platform to be seen. And I really feel like the Weekend Update desk is where I am given the opportunity to shine on that show.

I really don't care about stats. I don't care about any of that stuff. I just care about performing each and every weekend and helping my team win ball games.

I can earn more in a single weekend of convetioneering than I would in an entire month drawing comics. And I get a pretty high rate drawing comics.

We are all football players and we are here to do our best. You want to work hard in training and we will see what happens at a weekend.

When I started at the Wall Street Journal after college in 1990, there were lots of smart women around me all the time. They were writing for the paper, serving as managing editor, winning Pulitzers and anchoring the weekend show I worked on. It was so inspiring to me.

Yes, it is always good to contribute, but the most important thing is where we finish on the points table. That is more important to me than how many runs I score.

I think, as competitors, you always wanted to try and gain an advantage, and you have that opportunity to go out and grab those bonus points and gain as many as you can throughout the year.

As players at Bayern, we're not interested in any boredom - we're interested in picking up three points each game.

India is a large market where our focus will be to grow faster than the market and add few percentage points to our market share every year.

I just try and make the right play. It led to me leading the country in points and assists.

I only care about winning and putting points on the board.

I feel like I'm dreaming. 10,000 points in the NBA. It's crazy.

It's always good to score a goal, but for me, the most important thing is the three points.

For us, it's about winning. How do you do that? You score more points than the other team.

What makes me a selfish player? Because I shoot the ball? I'm supposed to shoot the ball. That's how you score points. Those points go on the scoreboard for the whole team.

I think a lot of success I have had in the past is I have been able to work points, find the right time to come forward.

We really were poised to make 'Rumours 2,' and that could've been the beginning of kind of painting yourself into a corner in terms of living up to the labels that were being placed on you as a band.

Poison is one of the first, if not the first, truly independent bands to sell 3 million copies of our first record. It was before we were with a big company.

Poker is just a hobby I'm passionate about. It's not supposed to bring glory.

I'm the first person in my family to play poker.

It wasn't a popular thing to be a professional poker player in the '80s.

We have hillbillies with third grade educations and 8th grade educations who have conquered the poker world. There is no telling why someone is great at reading other people. Some people just are.

There are a lot of new opportunities that are poking their head up in my future. I've been very fortunate that way, but for right now, what I like is what I'm doing.

My father was raised in an orphanage, and my mother was an immigrant from Poland whose first childhood memory was of hunger. Somehow, despite all of that, I am called a member of the 'elite.' If so, I damned well earned it.